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I. Magnin & Company was a San Francisco, California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. Over the course of its existence, it expanded across the West into Southern California and the adjoining states of Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.
I. Magnin was a legendary San Francisco department store that was founded in 1876 by Mary Ann Magnin and named for her husband Isaac. Originally, the couple sold baby clothing, which Mary Ann made, and Isaac sold as a peddler.
Feb 13, 2019 · The signature I. Magnin Building, a 10-story white marble store, opened on Union Square in 1948. In a column written decades later, as I. Magnin closed, Herb Caen waxed nostalgic about the...
Dec 31, 2006 · No one at the party was old enough to have remembered Mary Ann Cohen Magnin and her husband, Isaac Magnin, who founded the first I. Magnin store in 1877. It specialized in her handiwork as a...
Jan 7, 1995 · After 118 Years, I. Magnin Takes a Powder. By Pat Steger, Chronicle Staff Writer Jan 7, 1995. At I. Magnin, they called her Crab Louis. This was back in the '50s when the store catered to the...
American department store chain. Founded: by Mary Ann Magnin in San Francisco, 1876. Company History: First branch opened in Santa Barbara, 1912; Los Angeles store opened, 1938, flagship San Francisco store opened, 1948; sold to Bullock's, 1943; to Federated Department Stores, 1964, which was acquired by Campeau Corporation (after an attempted ...
If you are from the East Coast like me, you may have never heard of the I. Magnin clothing and department stores that were popular on the West Coast from the late nineteenth century until the company’s closing in the mid-1990s.
